Holy Trinity (Braunschweig)

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Holy Trinity is a church in Stöckheim , a district of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony . It is located at Leipziger Straße 216 and is named after the Trinity , a truth of faith of the Catholic Church . The church belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Bernward with its seat in the Heidberg district about three kilometers away , and thus to the Braunschweig deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . Today the church building is leased to the Syrian Orthodox community Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, it is also used by the parish of St. Bernward and the Association for the Promotion of Christian Mission .

history

A Catholic parish was formed through the influx of Catholic refugees and displaced persons as a result of the Second World War . Their services were held in an emergency church at Leipziger Strasse 19.

The foundation stone of today's church was laid on May 22, 1966, and its consecration on December 11 of the same year .

Since November 1st, 2006 the church has belonged to the parish of St. Bernward , at that time almost 1000 Catholics belonged to the Holy Trinity , whose catchment area was the Stöckheim district. The church building has been rented to the Syrian Orthodox community of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel since August 1, 2013, but is still occasionally used by the Catholic community for weekday services and events. On September 1, 2017, in addition to the church building, the parsonage and parsonage were also given to the Syrian Orthodox community.

Architecture and equipment

The towerless, oval, twelve-sided central building was built according to plans by the Brunswick architect Wolfgang Tschirschwitz and is around 75 meters above sea level .

See also

literature

  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Bernward-Verlag, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 55.

Web links

Commons : Holy Trinity  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish of St. Bernward Braunschweig (ed.): Pfarrbrief, edition 1/2015, p. 7
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 79.
  3. ↑ Two thirds less ( memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on bistum-hildesheim.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bistum-hildesheim.de
  4. ↑ A dream for 30 years. Braunschweig: Syrian-Orthodox community leases Holy Trinity Church. In: KirchenZeitung , edition 35/2016 of August 28, 2016, p. 10

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 20.3 ″  E